Nigeria: Leading the Charge - Nigeria's Milestone in Meningitis Vaccination.
[Nigeria Health Watch] Vaccines are by far one of the greatest inventions known to mankind, making it possible to eradicate diseases such as smallpox and prevent other potentially deadly diseases like malaria and polio. Through global immunisation efforts, an estimated 154 million lives -- or the equivalent of 6 lives every minute of every year over the past 50 years -- majority of which were infants have been saved. To provide a complete picture -- in many countries, infants now have a significantly higher chance of reaching (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 3, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Nigeria West Africa Source Type: news
Nigeria: Meningitis - WHO Inaugurates Vaccination in Niger After Scores Died
[Premium Times] The UN health agency, in a statement, said the vaccination campaign against the meningitis outbreak began on Thursday. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 3, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Nigeria West Africa Source Type: news
50 years of EPI ’s extraordinary impact on global health
24 April 2024, Cairo, Egypt – World Immunization Week this year coincides with the 50th anniversary of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI). Such has been the programme’s remarkable impact on global health that the “E” in EPI today stands for “Essential”.
Since 1974, this WHO initiative has inspired countries to use vaccines to do everything humanly possible to safeguard the health and well-being of all children everywhere.
Dr Hanan Balkhy, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, emphasized the importance of equitable access to vaccines: “EPI has been instrumental in saving mi...
Source: WHO EMRO News - May 1, 2024 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Nigeria Is Pioneering a New Vaccine to Fight Meningitis - Why This Matters
[The Conversation Africa] Nigeria recently became the first country to roll out a new vaccine (called Men5CV) recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), which protects people against five strains of meningococcus bacteria. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 26, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Nigeria West Africa Source Type: news
Use of the Pfizer Pentavalent Meningococcal Vaccine Among Persons Aged ≥10 Years: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices - United States, 2023
This report describes recommendations for using Pfizer pentavalent meningococcal vaccines among people ages 10 years and older. (Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - April 18, 2024 Category: American Health Tags: MMWR Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report Source Type: news
Is Pfizer Stock, At A 9-Year Low, A Sell Amid The Search For Its Big Break?
stock is trading at a nine-year low as the drugmaker looks for its next big break after developing the first Covid vaccine with Germany's BioNTech (BNTX). Last month, the European Commission approved Pfizer's Prevnar 20, a vaccine to help protect babies and children from pneumococcal disease. The…#bntx #europeancommission #pfizer #prevnar20 #adcetris #seagen #adcentris #rsva #gsk #arexvy (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Nigeria: Nigeria First Country to Introduce 'Revolutionary' Meningitis Vaccine
[UN News] Nigeria has become the first country to roll out a "revolutionary" five-in-one vaccine against meningitis, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement on Friday. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 15, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Nigeria West Africa Source Type: news
Nigeria: In World First, Nigeria Introduces New 5-in-1 Vaccine Against Meningitis
[WHO] In a historic move, Nigeria has become the first country in the world to roll out a new vaccine (called Men5CV) recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), which protects people against five strains of the meningococcus bacteria. The vaccine and emergency vaccination activities are funded by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, which funds the global meningitis vaccine stockpile, and supports lower-income countries with routine vaccination against meningitis. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 14, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Nigeria West Africa Source Type: news
Nigeria becomes first country to roll out new meningitis vaccine, WHO says
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Source: Reuters: Health - April 14, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
A Rare Bacterial Disease Is Rising in the U.S.
NEW YORK — U.S. health officials are warning of an increase in rare bacterial illnesses than can lead to meningitis and possible death.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an alert to U.S. doctors on Thursday about an increase in cases of one type of invasive meningococcal disease, most of it due to a specific strain of bacteria.
Last year, 422 cases of it were reported in the U.S.—the most in a year since 2014. Already, 143 cases have been reported this year, meaning infections appear to be on track to surpass 2023, the CDC said. Most of the cases last year did not involve meningitis, t...
Source: TIME: Health - March 28, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mike Stobbe/AP Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
She could have died from meningitis. Now this student wants more people to get vaccinated
When varsity athlete Megan Plamendon got a headache last November, she thought she'd pushed herself too hard on a 17 kilometre run. But the student at Queen's University had meningitis — one of three cases that prompted Kingston health officials to warn of an increase in invasive meningococcal disease type B activity in the region. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada Source Type: news
Timing the New Meningitis Shots Serogroup Top 5's Timing the New Meningitis Shots Serogroup Top 5's
Clinicians are evaluating optimal timing for vaccination now that the first pentavalent vaccine against all five major serogroups of meningococcal disease is available.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines)
Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines - March 14, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Timing the New Meningococcal Disease Shots Timing the New Meningococcal Disease Shots
Clinicians are evaluating optimal timing for vaccination now that the first pentavalent vaccine against all five major serogroups of meningococcal disease is available.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines)
Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines - March 14, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
European Commission approves Pfizer & #039;s PREVENAR 20 ® to help protect infants and children against pneumococcal disease
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) today announced that the European Commission (EC) has granted marketing authorization for the company's 20-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, marketed in the European Union under the brand name PREVENAR 20®, for active immunization for the prevention of invasive disease, pneumonia and acute otitis media caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae in infants, children and adolescents from 6 weeks to less than 18 years of age. (Source: World Pharma News)
Source: World Pharma News - March 13, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Featured Pfizer Business and Industry Source Type: news
West Virginia Lawmakers OK Bill Drawing Back One of the Strictest Child Vaccination Laws
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia’s GOP-controlled state Legislature voted Saturday to allow some students who don’t attend traditional public schools to be exempt from state vaccination requirements that have long been held up as among the most strict in the country.
The bill was approved despite the objections of Republican Senate Health and Human Resources Chair Mike Maroney, a trained doctor, who called the bill “an embarrassment” and said he believed lawmakers were harming the state.
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Source: TIME: Health - March 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: LEAH WILLINGHAM / AP Tags: Uncategorized News Desk wire Source Type: news
